Celebrating The Epiphany with poetry and paint…

Three Kings came riding from far, far away…

Their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.

( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Beautiful, wonderful Starscapes on Starstones.

Some beautiful Miniature Starry Skies painted on stones.

We made Observational Drawings of Holly and Ivy –

Leaves and berries.

We went on to design wreaths for Christmas Cards.

Happy Christmas! 🙂

Celebrating the centenary of

George Wyllie…

Scottish Artist, Poet, Sculptor & more…

Happy Birthday George Wyllie!

2021 Year of Coasts and Waters in Scotland.

We painted Sea-Stones to celebrate…

HAPPY SAINT ANDREW’S DAY! 🙂  🙂  🙂

We celebrated Saint Andrew …

The fisherman who followed Jesus and learned to love.

Dear Saint Andrew,

Patron Saint of Scotland and our School.

You followed Jesus and learned to love.

Help us to follow Jesus and learn to love.

Benis moi, Aujourd’hui.

Amen.

Book Week Scotland is 10 years old!

You can watch their birthday video at The Scottish Book Trust website.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland/book-week-scotland-is-10

We made some Saltire inspired Bookmarks using wax crayon and paint.

Let’s celebrate books, authors, illustrators, reading and readers!

🙂   🙂   🙂

   Happy Reading!

A group of young artist activists worked with the photographer Alicia Bruce to explore our relationship with nature.

‘LEAF US ALONE’

This exhibition of visual art and photography is at The Young Persons gallery within The Dick Institute in Kilmarnock.

The exhibition runs until February 2022.

https://eastayrshireleisure.com/events/leaf-us-alone/

‘The leaves are drying, the breeze whispers of

days and nights,

the life-breath songs of our silver birch trees.

    The people of Scotland’s Nature Poem

Our national Makar has curated three new collective nature poems, ‘The Life Breath Songs’

The life breath Songs, The Shivering River, Are We Listening?

Read, listen and watch at The scottish Poetry Library.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/the-people-of-scotland/

   Enjoy!

Hello from Miss McCluskey.

Look at what we found in our Wildlife Space …

A wonderful couple of weeks of ‘Nature Art’…

   Look out for…

Beautiful Nature Art coming soon…

The Big Draw is the World’s biggest Drawing Festival.

Theme for 2021 is ‘Make the Change’.

Drawing is the single most powerful tool for learning and retaining new ideas

   Cool Drawings

Primary 2 worked in pairs to explore how many different ways that we could draw trees.